doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com A really really really stupid question.

Accent on the 2nd syllable of Kynoch? That seems odd.

Beauchamp . . . we tend to murder words that start out French, when we pronounce them in English. But to make that one into Beecham . . . you would not hear the p in French either, but you also would not hear the m. And the first part would be close to bow.

No. looking at it again, first and second syllable same intensity
Well Larry, my Grannie said that Bonner was originally Bonheur and they came over from France with Willian the Conquerer in 1066.
Little village called Belchamp St Paul up the road from where I used to live in Essex.
Another one called Saffron Walden, think Walden is Saxon for field, and they produced the spice, saffron, made from stamens of a flower, very expensive, unless the Chinese are making it now.
Mikey

Mike--Wald is Saxon German for forrest while Feld is Saxon German for field. Quick story about Les Nelson. Before an afternoon bear hunt with Les he added a quart of oil to his pickup truck. We were in the middle of nowhere when he noticed oil spatters on his windshield. We stopped to see what was wrong and saw that he forgot to replace the oil cap. No problem with Les. He just took an axe, chopped a small sappling, and made a plug wrapped with one of my handkerchiefs. Take my advice, get to know him and have him show you his fantastic trophy room. He might even show you some movies of his big game hunts in his home movie theater. I'll never forget that guy.

I'll give Les a call when I head up that way again, JRB.
Mike

Bonheur? Good name, Mikey. Means happiness or good luck. The French have a superstition that stepping in dog doodoo will bring you good luck. I think of that every time I clean the kennels.

Figures that would come from folks who eat woodcock guts.

Here in Kenya the Cholmondeley's are the Lord and Lady Delamere, and Hon. Tom. Or more commonly, Hugh, Anne, and Young Tom. The current Lord's grandfather was instrumental in encouraging British settlement of Kenya, and the family still has a magnificent ranch in the Rift Valley.

Turdugs, the Brits do not eat woodcock guts at all, they eat snipe guts on toast. But not this Brit, when I lived there, as my snipe were shot over a sewage ditch which never froze over in the winter.
However we did hang our pheasants guts in until the tail feathers almost drop out, it'a a tradition. It's just what we do, get used to it!
As a matter of interest the first spruce grouse I shot here in Canada in 1976 was hung up for a week, guts in, when I cleaned it it smelled strongly of Pine-sol, as used in outside biffeys, as as it roasted in the oven it stank my apartment out, and I had to take the girl out for Chinese, and I never saw her again, too bad, she was quite the looker.
Oh, well.
I lived in Southern Africa and never saw the Rift Valley, but I have read everything Robert Ruark wrote about the area and it's on my bucket list, with camera though, not a rifle, but a shotgun might be OK for francolin and helmeted guineafowl
Mike

Mike, my surname was originally Droux.

David, good thing you changed it. An American would have a tough time getting his tongue around that, although it'd be just fine in French.

When I was in Morocco, the State Dept security guy down in Casablanca was named Hicks. In French, that would be pronounced "eeks"--which is the same way they pronounce the letter X. We had a lot of fun with him: Mr. X, the security man.